Enterprise Architect - Dallas, United States - GDS Link

Description

About GDS Link

Join a fast-growing organization in the fintech industry.

GDS Link's mission is to facilitate responsible consumer and business lending practices to meet the financial needs of people and organizations.

GDS Link is a global leader in credit risk management, providing tailored software solutions, analytical and consulting services.

Our customer-centric risk management and process automation platforms are designed for the modern lender in their pursuit to capitalize on the entire credit lifecycle.

By providing a personal, consultative approach and leveraging our own industry-leading knowledge and expertise, GDS Link's solutions and services deliver exceptional value and proven results to thousands of clients around the world.

Responsibilities:


Solution Design and Development:

• Lead the design and development of scalable and adaptable container/serverless solutions in AWS with an "automation first" approach.
• Implement an enterprise-wide architectural strategy aligned with business objectives.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders to define technology standards that support development, technical services, and delivery teams.
• Ensure that architectural solutions remain aligned with business goals, even when adapting to unforeseen challenges.

Technology Evaluation and Best practices:

• Evaluate emerging technologies, industry trends, and vendor solutions and make recommendations for adoption or enhancements to support business objectives.
• Implement and enforce development and architecture best practices across various enterprise platforms.
• Proactively mitigate risks by implementing effective design and architectural decisions, ensuring both streamlined processes and adherence to a cloud-native approach.

Collaboration and Communication:

• Foster collaboration with cross-functional teams to ensure consistency in architectural principles and design.
• Communicate architectural decisions, plans, goals, and strategies to various stakeholders.

Mentorship and Leadership:

• Provide leadership, guidance, and mentorship to top management and technical teams.

Facilitate knowledge sharing and best practices across the organization.

Requirements

• Proven experience designing and implementing high-throughput and highly available solutions in AWS exclusively built with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform.
• Advanced knowledge of Terraform, Docker, Python, Git, and Bash is essential.
• In-depth knowledge of AWS standards, best practices, and effective utilization strategies.
• Strong expertise in AWS services such as: ECS Fargate, RDS Aurora, Cloudfront, Lambda.
• Strong expertise in AWS networking and cross account interactions.
• Minimum 6 years experience supporting production infrastructure in the Cloud.
• Experience in participating in technical discussions with cross-functional teams.
• Experience writing technical documents like Architecture diagrams
• Demonstrated ability to automate complex processes into streamlined pipelines.
• Strong familiarity using a Terraform deployment automation service like Atlantis, Spacelift, TFCloud.
• Advanced problem-solving and critical-thinking abilities.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.